Re: How to do differential backup with amanda?
2003-05-23 16:05:41
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Re: How to do differential backup with amanda? |
From: |
Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu> |
To: |
Wojciech Jedliczka <wj AT 3v DOT pl> |
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Fri, 9 May 2003 17:18:16 -0400 (EDT) |
On Fri, 9 May 2003 at 11:14pm, Wojciech Jedliczka wrote
> I have tried to use 'incronly' strategy to provide described above
> functionality
> and I noticed that Amanda stops at level 9. I need an 'incremental only
> forever'
> strategy for such purpose. In addition, when recovering I do not need a
> whole
> filesystem but chosen file/files only. So, every restore needs 1 or maximum
> 2 tapes only regardless of level's number. In fact, Amanda was not designed
> for such backup strategy and she must do a level 0 backup from time to time
Well, no "traditional" backup tool is designed for such a situation,
really. It seems to me that a quick script using find and tar would work
quite well for this situation, though.
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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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